Is this like the time when people who had never been at sea in the late afternoon decided that ancient greeks couldn’t tell red from blue?

In Homer’s Iliad, we rarely encounter the Greek word for ‘I’

Greek in general tends to omit the first person pronoun since the corresponding conjugation is both pretty distinct and also rimes with said pronoun, so why say ‘I am’ when ‘am’ do trick is usually how it goes.

Now I’m not saying their entire methodology was open iliad.pdf, ctrl+f ἐγώ and be surprised at the result count, but if they landed on the authors of the Iliad being p-zombies for their conclusion, disregarding such an assumption might be premature.

Also fuck all these headlines putting the infidelity front and center when the more obvious reason is nvidia attempting to cover their ass with a blood sacrifice for repeatedly violating US commerce law by shady deals with sanctioned foreign entities to the tune of tens of billions, over years and with the blessings of the potus.

Aaaaaaaaand he’s gone

CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO.

edit: The POTUS is sundowning again

Yeah, it’s definitely an open question if they are being honest for honesty’s sake or just trying to get ahead of people realising that the game is slop-infested in obvious ways.

Assuming the first, the number is definitely based on vibes, but 0.1% of say ten million lines of code is still a lot of code, and the way LLMs have been shoved into every nook and cranny of the major IDEs, demanding proof of zero tokens spent during development puts enterprise devs in a weird spot, especially with stack overflow all but defunct and the various tool vendors increasingly assuming you’ll be using them in LLM-first dev scenarios and skimping on providing in-depth guidelines, or slopping them out.

It sucks.

Still, really not beating the cult allegations.

Mr. Aue concluded that an employee about to begin cancer treatment could not provide the “exclusive and energetic focus” the Foundation was demanding of every employee, and that retaining her, with the time away from work and adjustments her treatment would require, was inconsistent with the “right mix of people” he intended to assemble.

Smart contracts was an insanely terrible idea, let’s make database triggers but super complex and unchangeable so if there’s a bug/loophole you can’t fix it, oops, you lost all your money, no backsies.

Smart contracts is what made DAOs possible and kicked the scam era of cryptocurrency into high gear.

Developers House House told Aftermath via email that “LLMs were used sparingly by House House to help work through difficult technical challenges and bugs”, and that they “estimate that well under 0.1% of Big Walk’s code had anything to do with this usage”. They also stress that “generative AI was not used in any other context when making the game”.

Not to get all doctorow on this, but I generally don’t think we should concede this approach to using LLMs to the yooooooo I just vibecoded an FIFA 2027 cloen for android watch WITH MY DICK!!!11!! people.

If/when a time comes when genAI isn’t actively ruining everything and doesn’t need all the RAM and hard drive space in the world to be useful, using it like that seems a far cry better than even what torvalds is currently doing.

It’s all about that new METR data.

Yeah, they seem to have moved on from multiplying sufficiently large matrixes is magic to thinking it’s actually the code writing that’ll get mystical any time now.

Total System Failure: U.S. Government Networks Will Need To Be Torched And Rebuilt

Interesting if you want a rundown of US gov IT security fuckups, so far, in light of nvidia’s Jansen being recently revealed to have been compromised by Chinese intelligence.

I’ve noted repeatedly in my writing that the Trump administration’s cybersecurity policy has been indistinguishable from a foreign attack.

Still illegal though, especially if you’re doing it in cahoots with the president.

First of all straight up telling an employee that we don’t like your cancer so we’re letting you go is just unfathomable, those people are already living in an Ancapistan of their own mind.

Employees objected to the imagery as well. Board member and Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang wrote that she “did not support applying the Milady aesthetic to a 1000-year vision mandate.” Mr. Buterin’s answer was that “the controversialness of those aesthetics is itself part of the point.”

What exactly is the point, Vitalik, would you please spell it out for the rest of us plebs?

Like it’s either making sure the company culture is compatible with freeze-peach neoreaction because you are planning to do, or have done and it’s about to be revealed, unhinged shit, or you’re just grooming people into learned helplessness because cult bullshit in the workplace these days gets you trillion dollar valuations.

Or maybe you are twelve and still think the vaunted third way/The Greater Good is 4chan coded libertarianism.

All the stuff about the edginess and the aesthetics being the point really brings to mind the reasoning behind the if you had to fuck a cow would you rather it were dead first sign up question in that aella bootcamp.

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I can see his remorse and genuine care for his family which makes me feel a bit sad.

I can barely imagine extending such good will to a family member if they willingly cheated, let alone a trillion dollar company CEO I’ve never met.

Parasocial tendencies are weird.

The image doesn’t seem to link to anything.

so uhh I take it thats not very good news for Nvidia

Depends on if there’s anyone left in the US govt who’d be interested in upholding all that stuff about not exporting top tier AI server components to geopolitical rivals I’d guess.

Maybe they’ll make an example of him to show what happens if you run competing grifts without cutting the presidential family in.

edit: turns out he’d very much cut the presidential family in

ECI is supposed to be some sort of aggregate benchmark measurement, and AECI the same except the A is for Anthropic?

I am beginning to like the cut of this publications jib.

https://defector.com/there-is-no-place-in-a-functional-society-for-elon-musk

The federal government is in tatters, the judiciary seeded with sneering MAGA goons like bear traps on a forest floor, the executive branch a metastatic growth of varyingly murderous criminal enterprises in unholy union with a psychotic, apocalyptic tech industry in suicide-cult thrall to bumbling chatbots.

That’s interesting, thanks! Not exactly sure where the dc loans fit in the benefits vs contributions scheme, but I guess it’s important context to keep in mind if reading further into this.